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New adventures in dye part 4

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

These fibers were really educational to dye, the ones I thought would take dye great did not, and the one I really was sceptic of took dye fabolously. The experience I have with these now are with kettledyeing so other methods will probably give a different result.

This is Ramie, I found that ramie was hard to dye. It did not take dye very well and bleed alot when I rinsed it.

Tencel, this I had very high hopes fore, it was bright bright red and the water I dyed it in was clear when It was done cooking. But it all dissapeared when I was rinsing the fiber. So this is almost back to white again with only a hint of pale pale pink.

And this Milk Protein I was really sceptical of, I did not think it would take dye very well but to my surprice it took dye fantasticly!

And Viscose was the only fiber that I thought would take dye well and actually also did :)

I also had a couple of skeins of Cottonyarn that was unlabeled. Well I tried to dye them too with terrible result. They bleed insanely when I rinsed them and now they are these screaming pastells… They really are as bright as in the picture!

New adventures in dye part 3

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Brazilian Superwash

New adventures in dye part 2.

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Brazilian superwash

New adventures in dye part 1.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

I have been dying lots of fiber the last few days with Jaquard Acid dyes.

Norwegian Crossbreed

Corriedale

Merino 64s

BFL

Dye dye dye

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I have been dying fleece in all kinds of colors :)

For some future dyeing I have also purchased some roving. This is 2 kilos of Brasilian superwash wool

I also recently got my fiberstash out to sort through it, well this is how much fiberstash a person can collect in 1.5 years… Need I say more? The big box is filled with Old Norwegian breed fleece.

Dyeing fleece.

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This is both Old Norwegian breed wool (villsauull) og Norwegian crossbreed wool (Norsk kryssning) that I have kettledyed. I cant wait to be working these piles into batts on my drumcarder!

More dyeing adventures

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

100 grams of Dorset Horn

100 grams of Masham

100 grams of Wensleydale

100 grams of Wensleydale

100 grams of Cheviot

100 grams of Cheviot

Some more dyeing.

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

I have been doing more dyeing, I just havent gotten around to blogging about it.

100 grams of Masham

100 grams of Shetland

100 Grams of Shetland

100 grams of La Plata

100 grams of La Plata

Dyeing wool

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I have gotten myself into the business of dying with acid dyes :) I bought a brand new single cookingplate to use outdoors, and I got two big pots from Goodwill. And the Jaquard Acid dyes I ordered from Spinnvilt. I dont want to turn my nice and light kitchen into a dyestudio, so I have decided that all dyeing will take place on my porch.

I had lots of fun dying these first 4 rovings! And I am very happy with how they turned out for my first try at dyeing with acid dyes.

100 grams of dorset horn wool

100 grams of Lincoln wool

100 grams of lincoln wool

100 grams of Mohair.

New dye adventures

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I got the urge to dye som fiber a couple of days ago. I had some Kool Aid and I went to it. It is all norwegian wool about 0.9 kilos all in all. I also used up all the Kool Aid I had, so if I will be dying more this way I willl have to get hold of some more.  I am considering buying aciddyes to try too, I have never tried dying with that kind of dyes before.

Dyeing roving part 3

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

For this roving I really had no plan other that just go with the flow and use whatever I felt like colorwise.

I started out wiht 100 grams of superwash wool and Kool Aid

after rinsing

and after it dried.

I am very excited about this! I cant wait to spin it up!

Dyeing roving part 2

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Here I started with 100 grams of superwash wool and Kool Aid. The plan was a colorscheme that went from yellow to purple, so I used yellow, orange, red, dark red and purple. The superwash really sucks up the color so that you get really strng colors!

After rinsing

and after it dried

Actually very happy with this too.

Dyeing roving part 1.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

This dyething will be spread over three posts, because I dyes 3 rovings.

For this I used 100 grams BFL roving and Kool Aid.

I decided that I wanted to try to get different shades of green or a green/blue roving. So I used green, blue and yellow Kool Aid, and this is how it was before I poured water on it.

After the water was poured on…. well not exactly what I was looking for

So I decided to put in some more color. BLue and purple was the thing I thought.

And after soaking for a while I rinsed the roving properly and had this pale thing.

I wasnt very happy with it, but decided to let it dry and then see it in proper daylight when it was dry.

Still pretty pale, but I think it will spin up nicely with the pale color after all.

Krystallfiolett

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Remember I dyed some roving with Krystallfiolett?

They came out like this

I started spinning it up and ended with these singles that I planned to ply together

Well… I didnt like how it looks plied together at all…

So I ended up spinning them in the singlecolor they were and I got these that I am very happy with. They are very overplied some places and very underplied other places and that makes them look somewhat strange, but I still think they came out pretty good. I am looking at these as a learning experience.

More stats on them tomorrow.

A dyeing project

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I had this bottle of Krystallfiolett (Metylrosanilin – used often for diaper rashes) just sitting there and I really had no use for it. It consists heavily of color that is a lovely shade of violet. If you spill it on some fabric etc it WILL leave purple stains. I figured this might bee good for dyeing some roving. So I tried.

First I had 200 grams of norwegian wool, I soaked them for about 15 minutes in cold water.

Then I placed 100 grams of it in my sons old washtub and got to it.

I mixed the Krystallfiolett with almost 5 dl water

And then I pored it over the 100 grams that was in the tub.

I gave it a couple of squeezes so the color was even

After about 5 minutes I put in the remaining 100 grams of wool and I soaked the whole lot for another 5 minutes.

I rinsed the rovings very good and I ended up with one darker and one lighter colored roving

And after they dried they had these gorgeous purple colors